Brian Wirzba

Addressing misleading medical information on social media: a scoping review of current interventions Background Misleading information about medical products on social media may cause overuse. Objectives Explore interventions targeting the problem of misleading medical information and marketing on s...

Addressing misleading medical information on social
media: ebm.bmj.com/content/30/6...

"...presence of misinformation on social media is testament to the fact that regulations are inadequate..."

"We need multidisciplinary collaborations and effective means to enforce or implement interventions..."

A risk to child health: confusion and concern over changes to US vaccine policy The control of severe and life-threatening infectious diseases of childhood through vaccination is one of the greatest triumphs of public health, with some 154 million lives saved through global immun...

"Routine childhood immunisations prevented an estimated 32 million hospitalisations and over 1 million deaths in the USA from 1994 to 2023."

A risk to child health: confusion and concern over changes to US vaccine policy - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.com

Primary Care Physician Compensation Model rewards good family medicine care | Alberta Doctors' Digest A PCPCM physician profile

The Primary Care Physician Compensation Model launched in April 2025. Since then, physicians on this model have reported benefits for both physicians and patients.
Read about PCPCM impact on physicians and patient care in Alberta Doctors' Digest. add.albertadoctors.org/issues/janua...

Workforce solutions require careful design and are being appropriately addressed through the current physician master agreement.

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've stayed on X (just posting) because of the (probably naive) belief important to ensure accurate content everywhere.

But X just an abusive BS machine. Stepping away.

HCWs need easy and free access to vaccines. Without the vaccine, there is greater risk that they will pick up Covid or the flu and pass it on to a vulnerable resident.

Debates (Hansard) No. 7 - June 3, 2025 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada Debates (Hansard) No. 7 - June 3, 2025 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada

“From 1981 to 2015, there were an average of 18 smoke hours per year in the city of Calgary. No year had over 100.

Now we see hundreds of smoke hours routinely: 315 in 2017, 450 in 2018, 439 in 2021, 512 in 2023, and 2024 was ‘only’ 200.”

It’s really disappointing. The smoke has so many layers of bad - the health impacts, the reminder of the reality of climate change and the overarching reminder that the order we create out of nature is fundamentally so fragile - nature always bats last.
And so few seem fussed.

Fruit Shop, By-Ward Market, Ottawa
Kathleen Moir Morris
c. 1922-1927

I have many of his books but was only able to see one of his exhibitions. Standing in front of a massive Sebastião Salgado print is life changing. RIP knowing the world is more truly seen because of your vision🕊

Saguenay
Bobs Cogill Haworth
n.d.

South Sudan: MSF strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei State | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan. The attack began at around 4:30am when two helicopter gunships first dr...

#SouthSudan: MSF strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei State.

Bombing of only hospital in Old Fangak puts healthcare of 110,000 people at risk.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/south-sudan-...

As dementia rates increase, experts warn hospital emergency rooms are underprepared An Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis shows one in six visits to...

As dementia rates increase, experts warn hospital emergency rooms are underprepared www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Late Evening
Franklin Carmichael
1938

Canada must act quickly to turn U.S. ‘brain drain’ into Canadian ‘brain gain’: CMA Canada must act quickly to attract the American medical and scientific professionals who no longer feel valued in Trump’s United States with its mass layoffs and the elimination of health programs and...

We’re seeing a huge increase in interest of U.S. medical graduates exploring options to practise in Canada. Recruiting doctors and health care workers need to be a priority, on a national level. www.cma.ca/about-us/wha...

😂😂😂Yooooooo they figured out that global warming is gonna be worse than we thought and in response they are “examining how to maintain profits” like seriously we are so screwed

Launching Greyling
Christopher Pratt
1992

it's as if we have an unhealthy dependence on O&G revenue

This is real. Trump appears to be suggesting his tariffs on Canada will result in fentanyl dealers getting dinged at customs.

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.

One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

Bleeding Money: Alberta’s Private Health Shift | The Tyee The UCP’s surgical initiative has crimped care and raised costs, concludes a report. It’s not a new pattern.

My latest for @thetyee.ca

Bleeding Money: Alberta's Private Health Shift via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning

Can confirm that admitting teams have been begging for supports to expand capacity and allow 4 safe care for years. Without it docs have left and fewer admitting teams result. Those teams have safety limits as well. The Frontline HCW is doing their best. We need execs to come, see, listen & act.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.

This is from the Canadian Medical Association, not exactly a bunch of wild radicals.
(also, the chocolate is available online here)
peacebychocolate.ca/products/92g...

Breakwater
Christopher Pratt
1976

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

I'm just hoping Canada 2025 doesn't become France 1940.